New Open Textbooks from Hillsborough College

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Hill, Joshua

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Nov 7, 2025, 3:22:35 PMNov 7
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Congratulations to Dr. Carol Stallworth and Dr. Melissa Brooks on the completion of two new textbooks from our AI OER Creation Program at Hillsborough College. These textbooks are 100% accessible and include AI Avatar based videos, H5P content, AI advocacy, and more. 

Cover image for Introductory Chemistry Lab Manual
This lab is designed to help you build strong foundational skills — from safely handling chemicals and using lab equipment, to making accurate measurements, analyzing chemical reactions, and applying scientific methods. Whether this is your very first chemistry lab or you’ve had a little experience before, you’ll find that everything we do here will connect directly to the real world around you.
Throughout the semester, you will:
  • Practice essential laboratory techniques like filtration, pipetting, measuring, and safe Bunsen burner use.
  • Record and interpret precise experimental data.
  • Explore chemical and physical properties through exciting hands-on experiments.
  • Apply your knowledge to solve real problems using scientific reasoning.
  • Grow your confidence in chemistry, step-by-step!

Cover image for AI-Driven Entrepreneurial Management: Managing Innovation for Success

This textbook equips students with the foundations of entrepreneurial management, emphasizing goal setting for new ventures and the use of AI tools to optimize time, tasks, and innovation. It also guides learners in building strong entrepreneurial networks and offers insights from successful entrepreneurs and industry experts.




Josh Hill, M.Ed.

Instructional Designer II
Center for Innovative Teaching and Technology

Hillsborough Community College Becoming Hillsborough College – Learn More

1602 N. 15th Street, Tampa, FL 33605
Office 813.259.6522   
jhi...@hccfl.edu  |  hccfl.edu

 

Zero Textbook Cost | Hillsborough Community College

 

 

 

 

 

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Charity Davenport

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Nov 7, 2025, 9:17:02 PMNov 7
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Hi Joshua, 

These looks like great resources and I appreciate your mentioning that these OER are accessible. However, I took a look to try to find an accessibility statement but I didn't find one. Many institutions like the community college I work at have been making sure all textbooks are accessible in order to meet the Title II of the ADA deadline -- traditional publishers should have VPATs and accessibility statements and documentation, so I am urging all OER creators to do the same. It would be great to fill out a VPAT for OER textbooks but this template might be helpful and more relevant. I hope the following resource helps and I hope more people will have a transparent accessibility statement in their OER textbooks.

Sutton, Susan R

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Nov 8, 2025, 12:11:06 AMNov 8
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Charity,

I worked with a team from RSCC who received a government grant and attended the training/conference provided for our faculty and full-time employee working to design some OER courses. Any grant money provided by the government require all recipients of the grant to make all OER materials ADA compliant.  

 

Namaste,

Susan

 

Susan Sutton, PhD

Director, Center for Teaching Arts & Technology & Distance Education

Accessibility Chair 

D2L Certified Administrator

Roane State Community College 

Office - 865-882-4658

Cell - 812-459-3982

E-mail: sutt...@roanestate.edu

 

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Date: Friday, November 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL][CCCOER] Re: New Open Textbooks from Hillsborough College

 

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Hi Joshua, 

 

These looks like great resources and I appreciate your mentioning that these OER are accessible. However, I took a look to try to find an accessibility statement but I didn't find one. Many institutions like the community college I work at have been making sure all textbooks are accessible in order to meet the Title II of the ADA deadline -- traditional publishers should have VPATs and accessibility statements and documentation, so I am urging all OER creators to do the same. It would be great to fill out a VPAT for OER textbooks but this template might be helpful and more relevant. I hope the following resource helps and I hope more people will have a transparent accessibility statement in their OER textbooks.

 

On Friday, November 7, 2025 at 3:22:35 PM UTC-5 Hill, Joshua wrote:

Congratulations to Dr. Carol Stallworth and Dr. Melissa Brooks on the completion of two new textbooks from our AI OER Creation Program at Hillsborough College. These textbooks are 100% accessible and include AI Avatar based videos, H5P content, AI advocacy, and more. 

 

1.              Introductory Chemistry Lab Manual

Image removed by sender. Cover image for Introductory Chemistry Lab Manual

This lab is designed to help you build strong foundational skills — from safely handling chemicals and using lab equipment, to making accurate measurements, analyzing chemical reactions, and applying scientific methods. Whether this is your very first chemistry lab or you’ve had a little experience before, you’ll find that everything we do here will connect directly to the real world around you.

Throughout the semester, you will:

  • Practice essential laboratory techniques like filtration, pipetting, measuring, and safe Bunsen burner use.
  • Record and interpret precise experimental data.
  • Explore chemical and physical properties through exciting hands-on experiments.
  • Apply your knowledge to solve real problems using scientific reasoning.
  • Grow your confidence in chemistry, step-by-step!

 

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This textbook equips students with the foundations of entrepreneurial management, emphasizing goal setting for new ventures and the use of AI tools to optimize time, tasks, and innovation. It also guides learners in building strong entrepreneurial networks and offers insights from successful entrepreneurs and industry experts.

 

 

 

 

Josh Hill, M.Ed.

Instructional Designer II
Center for Innovative Teaching and Technology

Hillsborough Community College Becoming Hillsborough College – Learn More

1602 N. 15th Street, Tampa, FL 33605
Office 813.259.6522   
jhi...@hccfl.edu  |  hccfl.edu

 

Zero Textbook Cost | Hillsborough Community College

 

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Hill, Joshua

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Nov 10, 2025, 10:17:54 AMNov 10
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All,
I appreciate your feedback on this vital topic. I am including the response to Rich Hershman. We strive for continuous improvement in our work and love the support and guidance for CCCOER. Please send me more feedback for improvement as you notice items. Thank you.

"Rich,
Thank you for the feedback. I will add the following to all of our textbooks. We are self-hosted, so I have installed both of the accessibility checkers below in our Pressbooks instance. Sa11y states that it conforms to WCAG 2.1 Level AA and A11y has the same claim. So, I would say yes, we are at WCAG Version 2.1, Level AA or higher based on my use of the tools and anything outside the scope that I would potentially notice, which honestly isn't much. I greatly value your feedback.



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"The A11Y Project strives to be Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG)  AA compliant. The WCAG is an open standard for determining accessibility. AA compliance is considered good support for a website geared towards a global audience."



This is all the information that Pressbooks will let me enter for Metadata for the AI-Driven Entrepreneurial Management: Managing Innovation for Success.  


Metadata

Title
AI-Driven Entrepreneurial Management: Managing Innovation for Success
Author
Melissa Brooks
Contributors
Josh Hill and Ilene Frank
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

AI-Driven Entrepreneurial Management: Managing Innovation for Success by The authors & Hillsborough Community College is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

This textbook conforms to WCAG Version 2.1, Level AA or higher.

First Edition, November 2025

Primary Subject
Entrepreneurship / Start-ups
Additional Subject(s)
Economics, Finance, Business and Management
Institution
Hillsborough Community College
Publisher
Hillsborough College AI OER Creation Program
Publication Date
November 7, 2025"






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